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  • Title: Lesch-Nyhan syndrome: altered kinetic properties of mutant enzyme.
    Author: McDonald JA, Kelley WN.
    Journal: Science; 1971 Feb 19; 171(3972):689-91. PubMed ID: 4322125.
    Abstract:
    Hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase is virtually inactive in erythrocytes from patients with the classical Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. In one such patient, activity of this enzyme ranged from 8 to 34 percent of normal in erythrocytes when assayed with a very high concentration of magnesium 5-phosphoribosyl-1-pyrophosphate. In addition, the mutant enzyme exhibited sigmoidal kinetics with this substrate as well as an increased Michaelis constant for both guanine and hypoxanthine. These findings provide the first evidence for genetic heterogeneity within the group of patients with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome.
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